Readings in Globalization: Key Concepts and Major Debates

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George Ritzer, Zeynep Atalay
John Wiley & Sons, 01.03.2010 - 496 Seiten
This unique and engaging anthology introduces students to the major concepts of globalization within the context of the key debates and disputes.
  • Introduces globalization through its basic concepts, rather than thematically; a distinctive approach that provides students with a better grasp of what social science has to offer on the topic
  • Utilizes concepts from interdisciplinary sources, bringing together work from key figures across a number of fields - from Weber and Marx, to contemporary figures in the field, including Beck, Bauman, Castells, and Homi Bhabha
  • Includes excerpts to illustrate ideas, all at an appropriate level of difficulty for an undergraduate audience
  • Offers all of this in the dynamic context of major debates surrounding the basic concepts and the fundamental realities of globalization
  • Designed so it can be used independently, or alongside Ritzer’s Globalization: A Basic Text for a complete student resource
 

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Inhalt

PartI Political Economy
19
the Present
29
History Ends Worlds Collide
36
Orientalism Colonialism and Postcolonialism
43
Neoliberalism
72
Structural Adjustment
117
The Human Rights Effects of World Bank Structural Adjustment
138
How International Monetary Fund and World Bank Policies
146
the Black Hole at the Middle of Empire? David Moore
234
The New World Order They Mean It Stanley Aronowitz
240
World Risk Society and Cosmopolitanism
260
Ulrich Beck and the World Risk Society Thesis
271
McWorld and Jihad
288
Culture
307
Critiquing Creolization Hybridity and Glocalization
344
The Political Limits
360

NationState
157
Globalization and the Myth of the Powerless State
166
Globalization and the Resilience of State Power
175
Transnationalism
182
World Systems
203
Empire
214
On Empire
226
Critical Reflections
372
McDonaldization
380
McDonaldization and the Global Culture of Consumption
389
Transnationalism Localization and Fast Foods in East Asia
396
World Culture
408
Sources and Credits
425
Urheberrecht

Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen

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Autoren-Profil (2010)

GEORGE RITZER is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland and his awards include the American Sociological Association's Distinguished Contribution to Teaching Award. He has authored numerous books, including several student textbooks, and is editor of The Encyclopedia of Social Theory (2005), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (2007 and continuing online), and The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization (forthcoming). His books, the best known of which is The McDonaldization of Society (1993; 2008), have been translated into over 20 languages.

ZEYNEP ATALAY is a PhD Candidate in Sociology at the University of Maryland. Her research interests lie in globalization, civil society, social movements, and NGO networks. Her current research explores the ways in which Muslim NGOs mobilize global networks through civil society.

Bibliografische Informationen

TitelReadings in Globalization: Key Concepts and Major Debates
Wiley Desktop Editions Series
HerausgeberGeorge Ritzer, Zeynep Atalay
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagJohn Wiley & Sons, 2010
ISBN1405132736, 9781405132732
Länge496 Seiten
  
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